<p>I strongly think that movies should be censored for too much violence. I think people should be free to express themselves, but expression that endangers society can not be allowed. I was doing a project on this viewpoint for school, and found a list of crimes inspired by the movie natural born killers. Natural</a> Born Killers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>Do you agree with me, or do you stand by the first amendment?</p>
<p>Completely disagree. Why should violence, which will always be a part of life, be taken out of anything it was originally put in? Unless you believe all of the media hype about kids being influenced by that, which is extremely exaggerated.</p>
<p>I don’t think it should be censored. But I do think America should change the way society view violence and sex. Currently, I believe we’re too prudish when it comes to sex. Comparing sex and violence in movies, I’d rather have people freak out over violence than sex. But, no, censoring is bad… ratings are okay.</p>
<p>what is this? Communist Russia. No. If you don’t like the movie don’t watch it. The movie industry has already made a rating scale because of this stuff and sometimes that goes too far because theaters won’t show NC-17 movies. The government already gets too much into our lives with censoring. This is a blantant violation of freedom of speech if you censor movies.</p>
<p>The ratings system is already basically movie censorship, except that it doesn’t really limit 1st amendment rights. I don’t think any change to the basic system is necessary. I do think that more needs to be done to make sure movies are properly rated though. For example, Casino Royale shouldn’t have been PG-13 with its torture scene.</p>
<p>I would have to agree with Modulation and AllPhillyFan. First of all, do you think it will do anyone any good if we hide violence away? If we hide away everything that could perhaps one day lead to a few stupid people committing crimes? Whether you become violent or not has nothing to do with movies - only with the person responsable. You can’t just go blaming things like that on movies. I do think it’s a bit of a problem when four year old kids sit in front of the tv and watch kill bill, but then, that’s up to whoever is in charge of them, we can’t make that decision for them.</p>
<p>Also, like Modulation said: If we hide things away, like sex (or violence), then we won’t be able to talk about it, and these are topics that need to be spoken about. In Switzerland, there are movies rated G that contain explicit scenes and lots of blood and gore, and the children aren’t more disturbed for it. As a matter of fact, the crime and early pregnancy rates are much lower (though it can be argued whether this has any direct corrolation to the movies themselves) here than in the states. </p>
<p>Either way, why forbid things that are parts of everyday life? Why hide things away that aren’t supposed to be hidden, and that are parts of each and every one of us? It’s not as if we couldn’t imagine violent scenes on our own, anway. Just a thought :)</p>
<p>Instead of censoring movies, I say we kill the easily impressionable. :)</p>
<p>lol :)</p>
<p>one more thing:</p>
<p>“but expression that endangers society can not be allowed”</p>
<p>–> what is society, in your opinion? A place where everyone has to be the same and be protected from scary things?</p>
<p>I like yawn’s idea.</p>
<p>^ dozens of people have been killed as a result of people who snapped while watching or immediately after watching the movie Natural Born Killers. it’s safe to say that we would have been better off without the movie.</p>
<p>-In 1994, a 14-year-old boy from Dallas, Texas decapitated a 13-year-old classmate. When asked why he did it, he allegedly said it was because he “wanted to be famous. Like the Natural Born Killers.”[25]
-In October 1994, 17-year-old Nathan Martinez from Bluffdale, Utah, shot and killed his stepmother and 10-year-old half-sister while they slept. He was apprehended several days later in O’Neill, Nebraska, following a nationwide manhunt. Martinez was allegedly obsessed with the film and claims to have seen it at least 10 times in the days prior to the murders. He had even shaved his head the way Mickey does at the end of the movie, and he had taken to wearing the same style of round sunglasses as Mickey.[27]
-In 1995 after allegedly watching the movie 19 times, a gang of four people in their twenties killed a truck driver and made their getaway in his rig. [28][29]
-On March 5, 1995, Sarah Edmondson and her boyfriend Benjamin Darras (both 18) spent the night at his family’s cabin in Oklahoma, dropping acid and watching Natural Born Killers. The following morning, they left the cabin armed with a .38-caliber revolver. On March 7, they arrived at Hernando, Mississippi, when Darras killed cotton mill manager William Savage by shooting him twice in the head at point blank range. They then travelled to Ponchatoula, Louisiana, where Edmondson shot Patsy Byers, a convenient store cashier.
-Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School Massacre were allegedly both fans of Natural Born Killers. Prior to the massacre, they had used the initials ‘NBK’ as their code. In a journal entry dated, April 10, 1998, Harris wrote “When I go NBK and people say things like “Oh, it was so tragic,” or “oh he is crazy!” or “It was so bloody”, just because your mommy and daddy told you blood and violence is bad, you think it’s a *<strong><em>ing law of nature? Wrong, only science and math are true, everything, and I mean every *</em></strong>ing thing else is Man made. Before I leave this worthless place, I will kill whoever I deem unfit for anything at all, especially life.” Harris also referred to April 20 as “the holy April morning of NBK”, and in an undated journal entry, Klebold wrote “I’m stuck in humanity. Maybe going NBK w. Eric is the way to break free”.[38]
-On July 19, 2008, in Milwaukee, Eric Tavulares (18) strangled his girlfriend, Lauren Aljubouri (also 18) to death. Tavulares and Aljubouri, both 18, had been watching the movie, and stopped it about half way through before going to bed. According to Tavulares, he and Aljubouri were lying in bed talking, when he “switched mentally” and began strangling her. Upon arriving at the scene, Tavulares told police “I did it, I can’t believe it. I did it.” He later claimed that he had seen Natural Born Killers between 10 and 20 times.</p>
<p>Lol I can see you being one of those parents that change the endings of sad movies so that the kids don’t get “scarred for life”</p>
<p>Those people have mental issues to begin with. Who is to say that they won’t kill someone later in life without the inspiration of a movie. Come on.</p>
<p>it’s impossible to prove that they would have committed horrible acts of violence regardless…and apparently some people agree with me. the movie was(and is) banned in Ireland.</p>
<p>So because of a few idiot in the world, nobody should be allowed to watch violent movies? What about the crazies that watch stuff and try to kill people for other reasons in a movie. Like John Hinckley Jr? Should we just ban movies all together? Come on man, this is some serious first amendment violations.</p>
<p>It’s either ban all movies or ban no movies, quite frankly.</p>
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<p>So? Dozens of people have killed because of many other reasons… let’s say religion. Does that mean we should censor everything that could possibly make one want to kill?</p>